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Incentives and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out …
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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?
Komlos, John - CESifo - 2014
destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …
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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001
creativity is more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181434
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Fueling Growth when Oil Peaks: Directed Technological Change and the Limits to Efficiency
André, Francisco J.; Smulders, Sjak - CESifo - 2012
While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource … scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous …
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How do Incentives Affect Creativity?
Eckartz, Katharina; Kirchkamp, Oliver; Schunk, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
We compare performance in a word based creativity task under three incentive schemes: a flat fee, a linear payment and …
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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - CESifo - 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an …
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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - CESifo - 2014
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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The Role of Standards in Eco-innovation: Lessons for Policymakers
Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Werf, Edwin van der - CESifo - 2013
discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and … instruments. Finally we discuss how governments might contribute to eco-innovation by selecting, stimulating or creating (inter …
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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2000
The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094166
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Firm and Establishment Volatility: The Role of Sunk Costs, Profit Uncertainty and Technological Change
Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2003
The degree of endemic volatility in the number of firms and establishments varies considerably across industries. Examining the within-industry range of variation (max.-min.) of the number of firms over our sample period, the low and high values across U.S. manufacturing industries are 4 and...
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